Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
Of course you should really have a data model that knows what it wants
to sort by and constructs the query appropriately. The table-drawing
code can then ask the data-model for heading-names and sort-order
details. It's more work up-front, but you only have to do it once and
then you can generate new table layouts very easily.
Can you recommend some literature for this subject? Tutorials or
something online? I know what a data model is. But I have no idea how
"the table-drawing code can then ask the data model"....
Google around for "metadata" and "data driven/led development"
Basically your data model needs to be able to describe itself in enough
detail that your code can draw it without having to have lots of
parameters set.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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